Sasha Graham teaches tarot classes and produces tarot events
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Contents
Introduction 1
How to Use This Book 5
January • 8
February • 39
March • 68
April • 99
May • 129
June • 160
July • 190
August • 221
September • 252
October • 282
November • 313
December • 343
Index of Spells 375
Index of Cards 395

Introduction

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65 Tarot Spells is a direct result of my passion for Janina Renée’s Tarot Spells.
I began working with Janina’s book over a decade ago. Back in those days I
held very different ideas about magical practice, witchcraft, and tarot. The
first night I cast from Tarot Spells, two profound experiences occurred.
My desired goal was money manifestation. Nerves racked my belly as I sat at
my kitchen table. The candles flickered; the tarot cards were spread out. About
halfway through the process, I stopped. The air was different. The space looked
different. I felt different. The environment I had created with my focused intention was so beguiling, so strong, and so remarkably different from the normal
world that I sat inside it like a sun worshipper, soaking it in.
My original goal of manifesting money was tossed aside. I had discerned
something more important than obtaining a future outcome or material gain.
I sat inside the space where my interior and exterior met. It was the electric
nature of sacred space. My actions had created the space. It did not stem from
religious dogma, a Sunday church service, or a New Age bookstore. It blossomed
from my intention. It was spectacular.
The second impactful lesson I learned that fateful evening was that Janina
Renée brings the practitioner inside the tarot cards. She created an immersive
experience in which you could converse with archetypes, explore the environment of the card, touch them, feel them, and see them moving about. This simple adjustment rapidly expanded my tarot experience beyond the practice of
magic or divination. She brought the entire deck to life. It is my sincere hope
that 365 Tarot Spells will offer you the same rich tarot experience.
Eventually, I took my magic practice outside. Why confine yourself to the
kitchen table? Why sketch a pentacle on a sheet of paper when you can trace one

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across a snow-covered field? Why settle for a little pine incense when an army
of pine trees await your call? Why stay indoors when you can see your magical
intention crystallized as you whisper it into winter’s eastern wind?
Nature spirits soared above, reminding me of spiritual height. Fast, furry
animals burrowed below the ground, reminding me of the underworld, darkness, and growth. Weeping willows demonstrated how strong and delicate the
human spirit can be. A great buck’s white bones, plucked clean by scavengers,
offered meaningful meditations on the nature of death. Vegetable and flower
gardens offered valuable guidance on how to nurture my young daughter. Lessons appeared everywhere. The more I observed, the more I learned. You can
move your consciousness inside of a tree or an herb the same way you can enter
a tarot card: through observation and intention. You can align with the energy of
anything. And you can work in tandem with the energy, be it the property of an
herb or the collective resonance of an archetype.
Magic is based on the tapestry of interconnectivity between you and the natural
world. It is a majestic interplay. Magic is best understood as a threefold process:
1. Desire (Thought, Idea)

An idea dawns on you. You realize you want something. You discover a truth
inside yourself that must be made reality. You are ready to experience it. You
realize you would like to live close to the sea. You want to change career paths.
You desire more fun in life. You are ready to experience love. From desire you
form a concise intention for your magical goal, i.e., “I will live next to the ocean”
or “I am attracting an amazing romantic partner.”
2. Feeling (Align Yourself, Visualize)

You have stated your desire. Now it is time to align your energy with your desire.
See it. Feel it. Smell it. Taste it. Bring it into focus. Act as if you have it already.
If you want to live near the beach, smell the salt air, taste the fish tacos, and see
the moonlight rippling across the ocean waves. This is also where magical accessories are selected—items whose natural energy align with your goal: roses and

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chocolate for love, caffeine for action, mint for money. Tarot cards are chosen:
Queen of Wands for charisma, the Sun for health, King of Pentacles for money,
and so on.
3. Action (Spell)

The fastest way to bring something into your life is to take action on it. Performing a spell is that action. It makes your desire known, your intention clear. It is
your call and response with the universe.
Making magic is like making love. No two souls perform or experience magical
practice in the same way. The magical act can be an intimate experience enjoyed
by the solo practitioner or a shared experience with a friend, lover, or coven.
The choice is yours. Some people achieve seemingly magical results without ever
performing spells, but spellcasting is sensual, emotional, and always a discovery
process.
Each of us has a unique magical fingerprint. Some of us are built for natural
magic, finding that our talents and results soar in the rustling forest or amidst the
wild winds of seascapes. Others may excel using the precise nature of ceremonial
magic. Some of us are naturally drawn to gemstones and crystals while others
prefer candle or crafting magic. Discovering and cultivating personal magic is
one of the most exciting things you will ever do. It is the absolute delight and
right of every person to find out where their magical ability lies.
Tarot is the perfect magical tool. Tarot cards operate at a different energetic
level than herbs, food, candles, or incense. Tarot does not grow from the ground
nor does it have a season in which it thrives. Tarot is a metaphysical machine
that has sprung from human consciousness. It communicates through symbol.
Archetypes of tarot are strong and embedded in our psyche. We may enter the
card as if through a gate. We move into an altered state—the subtle world that
exists between nature and imagination, where all things become possible. This
is where true change occurs. This is where we alter the shape of the psyche. We

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are able to access and unlock hidden parts and pieces of ourself that might have
otherwise lain dormant. This unlocks new possibility.
Magical practice will teach you that you are not separate from the natural
world; you are part of it. It teaches that you are not separate from other people;
we are all connected. Magic will teach you that the gateway to the supernatural
and your imagination is found through the pleasurable cultivation of your five
senses. Magic teaches that what you put out in the world via spells, words, or
day-to-day interactions will come back to you. A magical practice will teach the
value of living in the moment, engaging the present, and releasing the ego.
Magic doesn’t teach you how to “get” things from life. It teaches you how to
embrace and experience it. It teaches you how to interface and play with your
reality in order to make your soul’s intention/manifestation real, and the manifestation of your true self just happens to be why we are all here to begin with.
Venture out into the world. Break out of the conventions of those who have
come before. Don’t be defined by books of magic. Discover your own archetypes.
Make your own magical associations. Find out what resonates for you. Become
your own guru. Let experimentation become your teacher. Magic is experiential.
Experience it!
Magical practice offers everyone the opportunity to reinvent themselves from
the inside out. Why? Because you are a sorceress who has already created the
world you inhabit, whether you realize it or not. Magical practice and tarot give
you the tools and opportunities to cultivate, explore, and expand that world, and
its boundaries are infinite.
Just like you.

Sasha Graham
new york city, 2015

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How to Use This Book

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65 Tarot Spreads, a book I wrote in 2014, contains a tarot spread for every
day of the year. As I crafted 365 Tarot Spreads it dawned on me that the structure would make an excellent premise for a spell book. You may notice that
interesting historical factoids are cross-referenced between the two books. This
was done intentionally. Feel free to use the books in conjunction, first performing a tarot spread for clarity, then performing the spell to manifest your desired
outcome.
You need not perform the spell on the date it is listed. The calendar simply
supplied an excellent framework for a collection of spells I hope you will find
useful for a lifetime.

Anyone Can Use This Book

You do not need to know anything about tarot or have magical training to use
this book.

Choose Your Deck

Llewellynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Classic Tarot was selected to illustrate this book. Its vivid, colorful
images will bring the viewer straight into the heart of the arcana.
You should use any tarot deck you feel a strong magical connection to for
spellwork. It is a good idea to select a separate tarot deck, one used only for the
purpose of magic. There are two reasons for this. First, you will foster a specific
energetic connection with the magical deck. Second, it will free you to carry your
magical or charmed tarot cards with you and keep your spell mandalas in sight
(as is often advised), while a separate deck will be available for readings and
other uses.

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Read Each Spell All the Way Through
and Gather All Tools

Mise en place is a French cooking expression meaning “everything in its place.”
Preparing recipes and casting spells retain similar principles. You should be
thoroughly familiar with each spell before preparing and crafting it. Have all
required tools at your fingertips. Read each spell all the way through. Visualize yourself performing each step as you read the spell. It will pave the way for
improvisations and additional elements you might add to provide a personal
touch.
Every spell in the book requires a tarot card. If an item suggested is challenging to find, either discard its use, find a substitute, or let the procuring of that
item become part of the spell.

Pick, Choose, and Improvise

Magic is an art form, not a science. Each spell offers different ingredients, incantations, and cards. Some spells are simple and use only the tarot; others are more
complicated and use accessories.
Just because I wrote it doesn’t mean it is right for you. Change and adapt the
spells as wildly as you see fit. The more emotionally intuitive your connection
with your tools and accessories, the stronger your magic will be. Consider each
spell a base, a guideline. Let it inspire your own interpretations. Built upon what
I wrote. Make it your own.

Create Sacred Space

It is assumed that each practitioner will open their personal sacred space before
casting any spell in this book. That may be as simple as lighting a single dedicated candle or as complex as invoking the elements or guardian angels, burning
incense, and working with lunar cycles, astrological timing, etc. The opening and
closing of the space in the spell is left for you to determine as you see fit.

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Responsible Magic

1. Magic is not a substitute or a replacement for medical treatment, financial
responsibility, or psychotherapy.
2. You are required to do the work to back up your spell. Magic is never a quick
fix.
3. Remember the magical rule of three: what you send out to the world will
come back to you three times as strong. Never, ever, ever cast harmful or
negative magic on another person, place, or thing.

Enter the Card

Many guided meditations and spells will ask you to enter the card. Entering the
card means literally bringing your consciousness inside of the arcana. Due to the
wide variety of deck availability, some elements I describe may differ from the
image you are using.

Become the Figure on the Card

Tarot is seventy-eight reflections of you. There are many instances when I suggest you become the figure—the Empress, the Queen of Cups, the Hierophant,
and so on. Inhabiting the figures of tarot and looking through their eyes is a
unique way to experience their lessons and the higher and lower, outer and inner
aspects of yourself. Embrace this process, then try this practice in your regular
life. Look at your boyfriend through the Knight of Wand’s eyes or sip tea with
your mother and look at her through the Hierophant’s eyes.

Connection Rituals

Scattered throughout the book are seventy-eight connection rituals to each and
every arcana of tarot. These rituals are to foster a deep connection between
yourself and the arcana. It will expand your tarot practice and your experience
of the cards. This is your opportunity to climb smack-dab into the heart of the
arcana.

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January • 1
The Fool’s Fresh Start Spell
It’s the first day of the new
year! Perform this spell when
you are turning over a new
leaf, replacing an old habit
with a new one, and marking
a new cycle in your life.

The Death card represents endings and marks the moment of
transformation. The Fool reflects fearlessly leaping forward
toward new realities and possibilities. White roses represent
purity. The color white represents a fresh start and a blank page.
Place the Death card. Enter the card. Listen carefully. What
do you hear: music, wind, voices? Can you hear the clip-clop of
the horses’ hooves? A lifeless king lays upon the ground. He represents what has passed, what is finished and done. A girl in white
turns from the skeleton in fear, who marches forward like time.
Like the child in blue, you look up in amazement at Death and its
gifts. The sun rises between two towers. You usher in a new dawn,
release the past, and discard what no longer serves you.
Place the Fool card. Enter the card. Morning sunlight spills
over from Death’s arcana and fills the Fool’s arcana with a vibrant
midday lemon-yellow light. Drag the Fool card over the Death
card so the Fool sits atop Death. Hear the wind of opportunity
blowing across the mountain peaks.
Take your white rose in hand. It is the Fool’s symbol. Smell
the flower and contemplate its petals and beauty. Leave it on your
table to remind you of the fresh possibilities your new year brings.

Haitians celebrate Ancestors’
Day (Jour des Aieux) today.
Relatives celebrate and pay
special homage to those
family members who have
passed to the other side.

Method, Visualization, and Meditation

Ancestral alters can be combined into the decoration of a home.
The Nine of Pentacles represents our physical connection to our
family tree. The Six of Cups represents emotional qualities and
the stories we inherit from our family (positive and negative).
The Four of Wands reflects happiness and stability in the hearth
and home.
Create a space for ancestral photos, items, and keepsakes.
Place a bowl of fresh flowers and light a candle. Place the Nine of
Pentacles. Enter the card. Stand inside the vineyard and consider
how you are the fruit and blossom of your family. Every garden
has its season and its day; this moment in time is yours. Consider
those spirits who lived before; they stand in the castle, observing.
You are the living connection to the past, the result of millions of
years of evolution.
Place the Six of Cups and consider how you embody certain
family traits. How do you experience your birthright? What have
you been given? What are you grateful for? Acknowledging the
positive, begin to feel an emotional swell of gratitude for the good
you have been given.
Place the Four of Wands. How has stability been passed to
you? Where do you draw your strength? How does happiness
bloom and thrive?
The cards should be left out for twenty-four hours.

incantation
House of spirits
Ghosts of mine
Thank you for
Your gifts divine
You lived your truth
Now’s my time
Thank you for
Your gifts sublime

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3 • February
Banish Negativity from the Home
Ingredients

•• The Star
•• Broom
•• Sage smudge stick

Japan celebrates Setsubun
today. The word literally
translates into “seasonal
division” and is part of a spring

Method, Visualization, and Meditation

celebration. Cleansing rituals

The Star card reflects opening and cleansing. Brooms are a witch’s
symbol and the essential tool of spacial clearing. The burning of
dried sage not only clears space but offers clarity, wisdom, and an
increased spiritual awareness.
Place the Star card before you. Enter the card. Feel peace entering your body from above as your body begins to release from the
tip of your head down to your feet. Hear the gentle sound of water
being poured. The crickets of the night chirp gently as the sky
opens in a blanket of stars above you. Move within the card until
you have cultivated so much peace that it begins to move through
the boundaries of your physical body and fill the room.
Open your windows, allowing the wind to cleanse your space.
Take your broom to the highest room in your house and sweep
backwards through the door. Move systematically through each
room of your home, sweeping the negativity out and allowing
peace and inspiration to fill it. End at the front door. Sweep nine
times. Recite the incantation and place the Star card on or near
your door for twenty-four hours. Burn some sage in your kitchen
(or any room you consider the heart of your home) for additional
cleansing.

are performed to drive away
evil from the previous year.

incantation
Broom and air
Air and broom
Cleanse and clean
Each single room
Negative spirits
Begone and disappear
With my broom
I sweep and clear
Out the door
Away with you
I will not stop
Till I am through

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12 • March
Bountiful Garden Spell
Ingredients

Today is National

1

•• Pen and paper

Flower Day in the United

1. The Sun

States. It’s a perfect day

2. Knight of Pentacles
3. Nine of Pentacles

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3

•• 1 seed (any variety or from a fruit)

to plan a magical bed of
creation and manifestation.

Method, Visualization, and Meditation

Some gardens are organized by the elemental association of the
plants. A witch’s herb garden planted near the home makes for
easy pickings when crafting spells and recipes. Moon gardens
scent nighttime air with flowers that bloom nocturnally and represent our subconscious. A simple vegetable patch can be a place
of powerful manifestation and certainly of good health.
Sketch this year’s garden plan with the help of three tarot
cards. Seal the spell by planting a single seed. The seed is symbolic
and need not actually grow in your garden.
The Sun card reflects solar, expansive energy. The Knight of
Pentacles considers the act of creation. The Nine of Pentacles
reflects the joy and contentment of your garden.
Place the Sun card before you. Consider the sun’s pervasive
power on earth. All physical things—animal, vegetable, and mineral—require the light of the sun. Channel the sun’s expansive
energy, the power generator of your garden.
Place the Knight of Pentacles. Embody him. Hold the seeds
of your garden in hand. What does this year’s garden represent?
What requires growth and expansion? What shall you cultivate?
Place the Nine of Pentacles. See your garden blooming at the
height of summer. See yourself surrounded by the bounty that
you have created.
Begin to sketch your garden, planning what seeds will go
where. Arrange the flowers, vegetables, and herbs.
Place the Nine of Pentacles atop the paper and repeat the
incantation. Plant your seed, even if it means slipping it into
some snow or under a rock.

incantation
Light of sun
And water of rain
Help my garden
Bloom again
The seeds I plant
Mean something more
Undeniable delights
Are in store

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April • 10
Tree Journey with the Four of Cups
Ingredients

The first Arbor Day

•• Four of Cups

was celebrated on

•• Your favorite tree

this day in 1872.

Method, Visualization, and Meditation

In almost any tarot deck the Four of Cups card reflects a figure sitting beneath a tree. The traditional meaning of this card
describes unseen opportunities. The entire universe is your personal unseen opportunity. Infinite realities are awaiting your discovery. True magic exists in what you place your attention on.
Trees are the lungs of the planet and are representative of
the human journey. Did you know trees can serve as thresholds
to other realities? For this journey, you will embrace the gateway
quality of a tree.
If you have a favorite tree, take your card to the actual tree. If
you don’t have a relationship with any particular tree, take a walk
until a tree catches your eye. If you do not have access to trees,
simply use the Four of Cups.
Focus on the Four of Cups as you sit beneath the tree or move
inside the card if you are only using the card. Feel the soft grass
beneath your crossed legs. Note how the towering tree’s leaves
dapple you in sunlight. Spend twenty minutes observing the tree.
Look at the bark. What does it look like? What does it remind
you of? Examine its leaves. See if you can follow its root system
under the earth.
Sit beneath the tree, back to its trunk. Align yourself with the
tree’s energy. As you do, allow yourself to drift off to the state
between wakefulness and sleep. What happens? What do you
notice? Hear? See?
Record your findings in your grimoire or journal with the Four
of Cups in sight.

incantation
Leaves and bark
Sun and sky
Through your branches
I will fly
Travel up
Travel deep
Enter you
In twilight sleep
Move inside
Move between
Enter realities
Quite unseen

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May • 14
Seven of Pentacles Connection Ritual
Ingredient

The Seven of Pentacles

•• Seven of Pentacles

was called the Lord of
Success Unfulfilled by the

Method, Visualization, and Meditation

magicians of the Golden

Enter the arcana of the Seven of Pentacles.
Seven is a mystical number. Seven is a lucky number. There are
seven notes on the musical scale, seven days of the week, seven
planets in our solar system besides Earth, seven deadly sins, seven
seas, seven colors of the rainbow, seven continents, and seven
wonders of the ancient world.
It is overcast. It’s one of those days where the sky looks like a
gray sheet of construction paper from sunup till sundown. The
humid air carries the smell of sweet grass and vegetation. A gardener stands before you, leaning on a farming tool she was using
to dislodge weeds from the rich soil. Her gaze is drawn to a pile
of magical pentacles. The pentacles are bursting with life, ripened
like fat juicy peaches and weighing down their branches.
Heart-shaped leaves offer shade to the deep innards of the
plant. Slender corkscrew tendrils slither along the ground. They
extend up and around the figure as if reaching for her life force.
The worker’s face is solemn. Is she dreaming of a far-off
enchanted place? Is she being drawn into the world of the plant?
Either way, the number seven lets you know it has been a lucky
harvest.
There is still more to come.
But what shall grow is completely unexpected.
The pattern has changed.

Dawn, who assigned it the
time period of May 11–20.

incantation
Seven of Pentacles
Garden’s growth
Tend my seeds
And utter this oath
There’s magic in
The deeds I do
I make my mark
With all things true

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June • 5
Love Yourself Spell
The planet Venus went into
transit today in 2012, passing
directly between Earth and
the sun. Venus is named after
the Roman goddess of love
and beauty. There is no higher
love than appreciation and
acceptance of the self. True
love of all things begins here.

incantation
Priestess moon
And Empress sun
The web of magic’s
Just begun
Heal the wounds
That once I placed
Across my body
I do replace
With light and love
And love and light
Love myself
With all my might

The High Priestess reflects our shadow, invisible self. The Empress
reflects our physical, outer self. The gentle integration of this duality reflects who we are. When we listen and respect our instincts
(Priestess) and love and revere the physical body we have been
lent for this journey (Empress), we integrate with love toward
ourselves. With love and respect firmly set inward, we can then
shine it outward to the people, places, and things we care about.
Place the High Priestess. Enter the card. High above the ocean,
brilliant torches alight her temple. Her eyes are trained upon you.
She glows with the luminescence of the moon. You walk to her
throne. Turn and sit in her place. Become the High Priestess.
White and blue robes rest upon your skin as light and silky as your
favorite nightgown. The triple goddess crown rests firmly upon
your head. A scroll is on your lap bearing a language you cannot
decipher. It is the book of your life.
Place the Empress card. Enter the card. The soft flesh of your
bare feet tiptoes over wheat. The sun is warm on your head. The
dazzling illumination of the Empress is revealed. Sit in her place
to invoke her. The brilliance of the universe beams from the stars
upon your crown. Your hair cascades softly around your face and
neck. The power of all creation glows from your scepter. A luxurious gown flows around you. Sit back against silken velvet pillows.
Your belly is pregnant with potential.
Remove your clothing. Your body is borrowed for this life’s
journey. One day it will pass back into nothingness. Love it while
you live in it. Write loving statements all over your body with the
honey bear, like love, peace, etc., then enter your bath.

4 • July
Independence Spell
Ingredients

Independence Day

1. Eight of Swords

is celebrated today in

2. The Fool

the United States.

3. The World
Method, Visualization, and Meditation

Acts of independence can feel uncomfortable, even downright
scary. The trick is to let the fear move through you rather than
letting the fear move you. Make sense?
The Eight of Swords represents a transformative cocoon. The
Fool reflects a new beginning. The World card’s nirvana reflects
the result of facing a fear and moving through it.
Place the Eight of Swords. Though the figure is comfortable
and wrapped, she cannot stay inside of her bondage. Once useful, the white ties are now binding, keeping you from being truly
self-sufficient. Unravel them.
Place the Fool. See yourself breaking free. The sky has opened,
the sun is bright. You are vulnerable walking as the Fool, but you
walk anyway. The dog nips at your heels like resonant fear but you
laugh, push away your trepidation, and forge ahead, performing
the required actions.
Place the World card. Experience nirvana. You have faced your
fears and taken care of yourself. As a result, the world has opened
up for you. Possibility manifests everywhere, and you choose the
most delightful choices. You hold two powerful wands of magic.
You are immersed in the beauty that is the ebb and flow of all
creation.

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2

incantation
The Fool, the Fool
To be a Fool
Do not fear
It’s super cool
To trod my path
And live my life
Steering away from

3

Darkness and strife
I will do it!

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August • 22
Seven of Wands Connection Ritual
The Seven of Wands was
called the Lord of Valor by
the magicians of the Golden
Dawn, who assigned it the
time period of August 12–22.

incantation
Seven of Wands
Passions fight
Lay down your sticks
End this blight
When passion bubbles
To the fore
Time to cool
Not even score
Take a break
Give it a rest
Time will sort out
What is best

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Ingredient

•• Seven of Wands
Method, Visualization, and Meditation

Enter the arcana of the Seven of Wands.
Seven is a mystical number. Seven is a lucky number. There are
seven notes on the musical scale, seven days of the week, seven
planets in our solar system besides Earth, seven deadly sins, seven
seas, seven colors of the rainbow, seven continents, and seven
wonders of the ancient world.
You stand among a crowd in a green field, the sky as blue as if a
child had splashed it with tempera paint. Cries and voices fill your
ears as the crowd ignores you while jeering and taunting a man.
The gentleman stands upon a small hill. The crowd points sticks
toward the man, who raises his own staff in defense. You wonder
what he could have done to rile everyone up. Gazing at the wand
he grips, you note that his tool, an object once used for growth
and expansion, has been transformed into a weapon. How could
this be?
A grimace of pain and realization fills the man’s face. He relinquishes the wand and steps back. He was safe from the crowd
all along. He won by not engaging. His power and passion got
everyone worked up. The crowd saw something of themselves,
something they didn’t understand, in this man. Now they would
punish him for it. He realizes that the way to win is to not engage.
Taking this lesson to heart, he walks out of sight, stick dragging
behind him. The crowd disperses, mumbling and disappointed.
A single staff lies on the ground. It reverberates with power. Will
you pick it up or leave it be?

September • 15
Financial Oil
Today is Free Money Day.
People give money freely and
without obligation during
this global event. It promotes
sharing and passing on wealth
to others. Invoke wealth for
yourself on this day, and be

Ritual dressings and spirit oils are a cross-cultural phenomena,
from Catholic sacramental oils to the conjure oils of Hoodoo.
Money oil can be utilized in a variety of ways. Dab on your wrists
and behind the ears when you seek well-paying work. Massage
into the palms of your hands to attract money with handiwork.
Dab on your feet for financial stability. Use for anointing magical
candles, add to money sachets, incorporate into crafts, or use as an
offering to your god of choice.
Assemble all your ingredients so they are in hand’s reach. Place
the Ace of Pentacles before you. Enter the card. This is the garden
of manifestation. Honeysuckle grows, wisteria creeps, and seeds
flourish and sprout as life takes shape. This sacred space is the
pure source of all abundance, financial and otherwise.
A pentacle, the seed of growth, is extended. The orb glows
with life in the palm of a ghostly pale white hand. Bring the pentacle closer to your perspective. It grows bigger as you bring it
even closer. Draw it toward you until you are surrounded by the
yellow orb. You can reach out your arms and legs. You can hit the
five points of the star inside the pentacle with your hands, feet,
and head. You are the star. You are magic. You are attraction. You
are a magnet for what you require and desire.
Mix the ingredients into the oil while repeating the incantation.

This contemplation can be performed to strengthen the bond
between yourself and your mother or yourself and your daughter.
No matter the nature of your relationship with your mother and/
or daughter, a bond exists; this can be performed even if one person has passed to the other side or is not physically present.
The Two of Cups represents the happy union of souls and the
magic of their integral connection and reflection. The Empress
represents the archetypal essence of motherhood. Pages represent
young female energy. Select the appropriate page to represent
either yourself or your daughter.
Place the Empress before you. Enter the card and contemplate
the qualities of motherhood. How do you experience the physical
presence of your mother? What does she feel like? How do you
feel? What did you desire from your mother? How do you desire
motherhood yourself?
Place the page before you. Enter the card and contemplate the
qualities of childhood. How does it feel to be a child? How does it
feel to be a small person with a big spirit?
Place the Two of Cups. Consider the energetic connection
between mother and child. What do they reflect to each other?
What do they teach each other? How are you alike? How are
you different? What has grown as a result of your intermingling
energy? How does it feel to look at each other? How does it feel
to hold each other? How does it feel to laugh together? What
does it take to support each other?
What one thing can you do to strengthen or honor the connection between you? Commit to doing this today.

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incantation
Mother of earth
Child of light
Our synergy climbs
To a new height
Love and female
Friendship grows
Affection between us
Overflows
Our outer selves
Slip away
As our souls
Reflect and play

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November • 22
Hierophant Card Connection Ritual
In 498 the Roman papacy was
up in arms. The previous pope
died. Two different popes were
elected by opposing factions,
setting off a dramatic series
of events leading to one pope
fasting himself to death.

Enter the arcana of the Hierophant, which was called the Pope
in early tarot decks. Enter the card and cross the threshold into
sacred space. Hundreds of men—monks by the look of their red
caps—span the pews of this great temple. A massive Hierophant
towers over this divine place. You move before an ancient priest
who sits high on a throne. All known religion and dogma is left
behind. Myrtle and mugwort incense burn, their smoky tendrils
winding and climbing through the air, moving along the columns
into the highest reaches of this temple. Beings populate the darkness and look down from above, their watchful eyes upon you.
A humming grows in your ears. It is the call and response of
monks in prayer. Their voices echo through the great chamber,
opening a vibrational channel within you.
You step forward to the center aisle. The monks to your right
are adorned by gowns covered in white lilies. Sweet white blooms
have been placed in jugs and vases filling the space as far as the
eye can see. The monks to your left bear cloaks of red roses. Their
side of the temple is filled with the fragrant red flowers. You stand
in the intersection of passion and potential.
Passion and potential are the keys crossed at the Hierophant’s
feet. He sends these keys to you, one representing the lily of pure
white potential, the other, the red rose of passion.
This combination unlocks the Hierophant.
He sees that you hold the keys. He stands up and vacates his
throne. The throne slides back; his pillars part. You are invited to
take your passion and potential and walk straight into the heart
of the Divine.
Will you proceed?

9 • December
Releasing Stress/Invoking Peace Spell
Ingredients

The holidays are gearing

1. Nine of Swords

up, expectations abound,

2. Ace of Swords

and there’s a good chance

3. The High Priestess

you are feeling overloaded

Method, Visualization, and Meditation

with responsibility. Cast

Swords represent the mind, thoughts, and calculations. The Nine
of Swords represents a stressful state of mind. The Ace of Swords
will be used as a tool to remove stress triggers. The High Priestess
represents your natural state of calm and peace.
Place the Nine of Swords. Enter the card. Embody the woman
in bed. The springs of the mattress support you. The nightgown’s
soft cotton folds caress your shoulders and waist. Your head is
in your hands with emotional despair. Remove your hands from
your eyes. Look at the wall next to you. Each sword represents a
trigger to stressful thinking. You have the power to change your
thoughts. Grasp one sword by its cold steel handle. Use it to strike
the other swords from the wall.
Place the Ace of Swords over the Nine of Swords. You have harnessed the power of thought. The strength of the sword reverberates in your hand, up your arm, and through your whole body with
a gentle hum. You have command of your thoughts. If a stressful
thought enters your consciousness, notice it and let it pass.
Turn both cards sideways so the sword faces right. Place the
High Priestess to the right of the sword. You now direct all your
mental energy to the calm resting place of your natural intuition.
Moonlight filters the card. The gentle waves break behind her.
Your sleeping gown has become regal robes whose silken fabric
shimmers with the moon’s luminescence. Each fiber of her gown
carries the vibrancy of a moonbeam. You sit in her chair, at perfect peace. This is your natural state.
You are perfection.

this spell to free yourself.

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incantation
Release the stress
Invoke the calm
Tonight I am
Safe and warm
Night fades softly
And I see
A peaceful
Calm reality